Color

#a3afb2

#a3afb2
hex#a3afb2
rgbrgb(163, 175, 178)
hslhsl(192, 9%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.014 214.4)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4166

Colors that go with #a3afb2

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a3afb2

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2a6a3

#a3b2ae · #a3a8b2

#b2a3af · #afb2a3

Split-complementary

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#b2a3a8 · #b2aea3

#aea3b2 · #b2a6a3 · #a8b2a3

Contrast

#a3afb2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68797d as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5b5f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.33:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a3afb2 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a3afb2 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3afb2
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a3afb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3afb2-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md